Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack
About The Position
As a Senior Software Full Stack Engineer at Topstep, you’ll play a key role in building the systems that power our trader experience. We help both new and experienced traders by providing training, offering insights into their trading patterns, and facilitating payout requests. You’ll help define and evolve the platform, ensuring reliability, scalability, and clarity as our ecosystem grows. You’ll work primarily in TypeScript and React, building cloud-native applications that support high-throughput, low-latency workloads. In addition to shipping features, you’ll influence coding standards and engineering patterns adopted across teams, and help ensure the platform scales safely as usage and complexity increase. This role is ideal for someone who wants to contribute to key systems in our ecosystem, delivering elegant solutions that scale with intention. Join us and help shape what engineering excellence looks like at Topstep.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience building and operating production-grade systems with user-facing APIs, with demonstrated impact on scalability and reliability.
- A solid full-stack foundation, with strength in backend API design (TypeScript, GraphQL, REST) and modern frontend development (React, Next.js, TypeScript).
- Deep expertise in designing and operating scalable, distributed systems, including event-driven architectures, message queues, eventual consistency, and race condition handling, with a strong focus on performance, security, and maintainability.
- Strong database fundamentals, including experience with PostgreSQL or SQL Server-schema design, migrations, indexing, and query optimization.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex technical concepts for a range of audiences.
- A production mindset and bias toward action-embracing metrics, logging, tracing, on-call participation, and end-to-end ownership of delivery.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate cloud-native applications with an emphasis on reliability, safe deployments, and operational simplicity.
- Embed automated testing, observability, and operational ownership into every stage of feature delivery.
- Proactively identify and resolve issues, helping ensure our platform remains stable, performant, and ready to grow.
- Collaborate with product engineering teams to champion event-driven best practices and deliver scalable, resilient solutions.
Benefits
- Company-paid Holidays
- generous Family Leave
- Paid time off is front-loaded
- Competitive 401(k) matching
- health, dental, and vision insurance
- bonus for taking 5 consecutive days of vacation
- food and groceries budget
- contributes towards health and wellness
- performance-based bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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